Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:52:50 -0800 | From | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <> | Subject | Re: [patch] slab: add statistics for alien cache overflows |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:01:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote: > > > > Add a statistics counter which is incremented everytime the alien > > cache overflows. alien_cache limit is hardcoded to 12 right now. > > We can use this statistics to tune alien cache if needed in the future. > > Does it break slabtop, and whatever else reads /proc/slabinfo?
These stats get compiled in only with DEBUG_SLAB. Even with DEBUG_SLAB compiled in, slabtop does not break. I guess slabtop is not wired to read these extra stats. Is there anything else that reads slabinfo apart from slabtop? I could find only slabtop to be relevant with the procps package.
Thanks, Kiran
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